MambaVoiceCloning: Efficient and Expressive Text-to-Speech via State-Space Modeling and Diffusion Control
MambaVoiceCloning (MVC) asks whether the conditioning path of diffusion-based TTS can be made fully SSM-only at inference—removing all attention and recurrence across text, rhythm, and prosody—while preserving or improving quality under controlled conditions. MVC combines a gated bidirectional Mamba…